John Charles Molteno
1814–86
British-born South African politician and businessman. Emigrated to Cape Colony in 1831. Founded a mercantile and banking business in 1852. Represented Beaufort West in the newly established legislative assembly in 1854. Became first prime minister of Cape Colony in 1872 and opposed the British government’s plans for South African federation; dismissed by the governor, Bartle Frere, in 1878. Member of the legislative assembly for Victoria West, 1880; colonial secretary, 1881–2. Knighted, 1882.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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